DISTILLED, DELICATE, DEFINITIVE: SUDEEP SEN'S OEUVRE

Fractals is an encounter with a design paradigm, a certain matryoshka revelation of dolls-within-dolls.
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM

The sound of rain

The fluffy white puffs turned to a discordant grey
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Incongruity

I see a black darkness
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Human Shield

Rashna set out to meet Abedin on the Saturday after the incident at the procession, and on the way to the hospital in a rickshaw, she debated whether she was doing the right thing. It wasn't her responsibility to keep in touch with Abedin, but they had shared a perilous experience together, which seemed to make them more than strangers. They were both supposed to have been cut into pieces by Taleb and his men, but had miraculously survived. It still seemed unreal to Rashna because this sort of thing only happens in Bollywood movies.
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Rajshahi book fair on history starts

A two-day book fair on history began in Rajshahi city yesterday, organised by Bangladesh Itihas Sammilani.
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM

6,471 win BSK reading awards

A total of 6,471 students have won awards in the Bishwo Shahitto Kendro's (BSK) book reading programme last year.
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Poet Rafiq Azad at ICU

Renowned poet Rafiq Azad is admitted to the ICU of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka following a stroke.
15 January 2016, 14:17 PM

I NEEDED THIS BOOK

I haven't written a book review in a long time, because I didn't come across any that was out-of-the-box.
13 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Brick kiln rules breach adding to pollution

Very few brick kilns in Bangladesh have been built following the proper design, resulting in huge environmental pollution, experts said
9 January 2016, 18:00 PM

OUTSIDER

Sometimes I walk away from plights in my life
8 January 2016, 18:00 PM

You Can't Just Leave

Tobias Wolff would like to think his first published novel, “Ugly Rumours”, did not exist. It does not come up on any official list of his publications...
8 January 2016, 18:00 PM

HUMAN SHIELD

Rashna suddenly heard one of her classmates shout, “Look that's Abedin! They're going to kill him!” Rashna turned to see a young man on the ground and recognized Abedin immediately. He was their batch-mate, an attentive and serious student who
8 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Book fair starts on SCBA premises Jan 10

A week-long book fair will begin from January 10 on the premises of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA).
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Education ministry should publish Braille textbooks

Textbooks for visually impaired school students should be published by the education ministry in 2017, not by the social welfare ministry, a training session was told yesterday.
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM

TIME, TIDE, & TALES

Modernisation is not an easy process, but neither is its depiction (or description). Laurence Wylie's Village in the Vaucluse informs us how traditional society can go gently, yet Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart accents a more brutal face.
3 January 2016, 18:00 PM

A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces

The stories in this collection will make you see the world differently as the greatest stories always do.
3 January 2016, 18:00 PM

A literary duet of humane attitudes

Admittedly, we live in a milieu that comprises numerous sprinkled rudiments which keep crisscrossing each other in our personal-social-cultural-political existence.
3 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Contemporary Environmental Challenges in Bangladesh

Degradation of the natural environment and its impact on human lives is now visible all over the world.
3 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Two Poems by Bimal Guha

Time is running out fast.
1 January 2016, 18:00 PM

FREEDOM?

The gates opened with a screech and I was out of the clinic, it's been over a month, the bright sun hit my eyes, I cringed. It was a
1 January 2016, 18:00 PM